God-botherer calls collect

Aspiring Cardinal Rick Santorum was interviewed by the generally enabling Fox employee Chris Wallace yesterday and asked how charitable he is in comparison to more allegedly heretical types.

I want to ask you about the 2010 tax returns because in them, they show that President Obama gave 14 percent of his income to charity. Mitt Romney almost 14 percent. You gave 1.76 percent.

Why so little, sir?

Ruh-roh.

Li’l Ricky has managed to parlay his $923,000 in income in 2010 into negligible charitable donations. In fact, since having his pasty tuckus tossed out of the Senate in 2007, Santorum’s income has sky rocketed to nearly a million a year on average, barely any of it going to charity. For a guy who wears his religion like a jacket on his whole body (except the littlest Ricky of them all, no jacket there) that is pathetic.

Why Ricky, why?

I was in the situation where we have seven children and one disabled child who we take care of and she’s very, very expensive. We love her and we cherish the opportunity to take care of her. But she’s — it’s an additional expense and we have round the clock care for it and our insurance company doesn’t cover it, so I pay for it.

As Karoli at Crooks and Liars notes that is an incredibly ironic answer coming from a guy who thinks Obama a terrible American for wanting insurance companies prevented from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. Yes, Rick your child’s medical care is expensive, thank goodness you have the insurance you received as a member of Congress.

That insurance stuff is only good for you of course and a few other elites…and you like it that way.

Attaturk

In 1949, I decided to wrestle professionally, starting my career in Texas. In my debut, I defeated Abe Kashey, with former World Heavyweight boxing Champion Jack Dempsey as the referee. In 1950, I captured the NWA Junior Heavyweight title. In 1953, I won the Chicago version of the NWA United States Championship. I became one of the most well-known stars in wrestling during the golden age of television, thanks to my exposure on the Dumont Network, where I wowed audiences with my technical prowess. I was rumored to be one of the highest paid wrestlers during the 1950s, reportedly earning a hundred thousand dollars a year. My specialty was "the Sleeper Hold" and the founding of modern, secular, Turkey.

Oops, sorry, that's the biography of Verne Gagne with a touch of Mustafa Kemal.

I'm just an average moron who in reality is a practicing civil rights and employment attorney in fly-over country .